Nurse Practitioner Role with Children and Families

Catalog description

Nurse Practitioner role with children and their families to promote health, prevent illness, and manage acute or chronic health problems. NURS 875 provides instruction in the Nurse Practitioner role with children and their families to promote health, plan anticipatory guidance, conduct health screenings, prevent illness, and manage primary care health problems. Evidence-based management including, but not limited to, assessment, differential diagnoses, current guidelines' treatments, with both pharmacological and nonpharmacological strategies, are included; as are individual, age-related, family, and special population considerations. Epidemiological, cultural, ethical, and economical factors, plus interprofessional collaborations related to health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment are explored.